Teachers Shouldn't Be Learning on the Job as They Go

I'm starting to wonder if we've entered some kind of golden age of books about education. First came Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed," about the importance of developing noncognitive skills in students. It was published in September 2012. Then came "The Smartest Kids in the World," by Amanda Ripley, which tackled the question of what other countries were getting right in the classroom that America was getting wrong. Her book came out just about a year ago.

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